Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-10-26

, r. ........ ....,-.. =. Matt. 13: 1888: 4452
Dec a5-Review. Lesson selected BY the school,;
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KNOWING GOD. r..
Difference Between the PROCESS Of Follows
Ing and the Process of Searching-Heart-
Seeking and Finding.
There is. a great difference between
knowing God and knowing about God.
Which do you want? To know Code
or to know about Code D. "a ? il .. ssg.~
A customer applies to you to sell him
goods IN credit. You institute in
quiries about him. You ascertain his
standing at the merchants exchange.
You obtain letters Of introduction from
his neighbors. You obtain from him q
statement of his condition and pros
poets. In all this you are learning
about. your proposed customer. And
yet you may not know him, may never
meet him, may meyer even care to meet
him, may be quite satisfied not to know
him, only to learn about him through
Intermediates. Y on are travelling. You,
fall into conversation with a stranger
atsyour side. = The talk begins with the
weather. It drifts into politics. into
the labor question, Father McGlynn,:
the Protestant and the Roman Catholic
Church, the subject of personal relig-.
ion. Before you part you have learned
each others best thoughts and highest
experiences; you have discovered that
you draw your Intellectual life from
the same fayorite books, that You have
the same great purposes that your
hopes. and fears for your country and
for humanity are the same, that you
both love and worship the same Sa-
viour. You separate without perhaps
even knowing each others names.
You know each other; you know moth
ing about each other. a.. r. :.
We know each other sympatheti-
cally; we know about each other IN
tellectually. /s*5x.7 =. +, H.: IT.,
The child knows tie. mother when it
looks up into her face and feels rather
than perceives the mothers love. and
receives but does not understand the
power of the mothers love, and re-
ceives but does not understand the
power of the mothers personality.
But it does not know about the mother.
It can not fathom her. nature, knows
nothing of her problems and .perpleSi-
ties, 1ler household cares, her wide
reachi IL plans of love for her children.
She j an empress. What does the
child YFattling at her knee know about
imperial problems? The. child
knows the mother, but she does not
know about the mother. Herbert
Spencer is right. God is the Unknown
and the Unknowable., The orthodox
preacher is right. God is the best
known friend in the universe. Herbert
Spencer questions the intellect for its
account OF God, and the intellect an
swers: II can not tell. = He is un-
fashionable my stery.: The preacher
questions the heart, and the heart an
swers: Il will yet praise Him who is
the health of my countenance and my
God" The heart knows God. The
intellect does not know about God.
The two processes Of knowing about
God and knowing God are very differ
emit. The first is a process of following,
the second is a process Of searching. "A
scientist stands before a fine picture.
He says: Il wish could have the ex-
perience of satisfaction and delight in
that picture which my artist friend de-
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